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@with faire gardent' @Hirn NEWELL F. GUFFIN, OF GROVENORS GORNERS, NEW YORK.

Leiters Pafent N'o. 65,214. dated lllag/ 28, 1867.

HoP-TRELLIS.

To ALL wHoM IT MAY coNoERN;

lBe it known that I, NEWELL F. GUFFIN, of Grovenors Corners, in the county ofnschoharie, and State of New Yorlg, have invented a new and useful improvement in.Trellises-for-Training 'Hop-Vines; and 'Ik'lolheieljyv declare that the following isa full',`clear, and exact description ofthe sam-e, reference being had to the annexed `drawings makingpart of this specification, in which- 'Figure 1 is a sisle elevation'.

a Figure 2 is a view had from the end of one ofthe rows; and

Figure 3 is a plan.A y

The same lettersare employed in all the figures in the indien-tion of the same par-ts.

A A are the vertical stakes, set firmly in the ground in two parallel rows, at suitable distances apart to permit the growth of the vines :md the requisite circulation of air. To 4these stakes, on the outside of each row, is attached a loop or hook, G, of wire, or other suitable material, and below that is placed, on the same side, an eye or staple` B. D D are transverse poles, tapering at the lower end folconvcnient 'insertion into the eyes B, `and to form a shoulder to support the pole and prevent its slipping through the eye. `The other end of the pole is supported by the hook 'or loop on the top of the next pole A in the row. The poles are thus interloeked continuously through the entire extent of the row. The vines are to be planted at-t-he foot ofthe poles'A, and yon climbing the pole to-t-he inclined transverse pole B they will follow thaltfand thus' have a much greaterlength than can he given tothem without using vertical poles of very inconvenient length. In. gathering the hops it will be only necessary to cutthc vines at the base of the transverse poles D, which may then'beicarried with the vines on them to the pickers.- l

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the/poles A planted in double parallel rows1 and the transverse inclined poles D interlocking the former, to whichv they are attached by hooks'or loops C and eyes B, substantially as and for the Vpurpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

N EWELL F. GUFFIN.

Witnesses:

JOHN L. LORD, CATHARINE LORD. 

